During an excursion to family events in Indiana, we took a day to motor over to Springfield Illinois and see some of the historic sites related to Abraham Lincoln. There is a National Park site that presents the house Lincoln lived in during the 1850s as a successful lawyer surrounded by four small city blocks of period homes in their 1850s appearance. Several, including the Lincoln home are open to tour.

We did a late lunch across from the old statehouse, an area a few walkable blocks from the home site, and then toured the law offices, federal Court, and Post Office which are housed in an historic brick building which also contained retail space in its day.

On our way out we found our way to the cemetery where Lincoln is buried and went through the tomb which is quite an elegant structure. Both inside and outside the tomb there are structural designs and bronze statues that contain all sorts of interesting symbolic meanings.